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[f. the name of Thomas Holloway (1800–83), their inventor and manufacturer.]
Holloway's pill, a patent medicine used principally for laxative purposes. Also Holloway's ointment.
1838Town 16 June 440/1 (Advt.), Holloway's universal family ointment... Holloway's external disease pill. 1849E. Ruskin Let. 8 Nov. in M. Lutyens Effie in Venice (1965) i. 59, I get..a Holloway's Pill when I require such medicine. 1877E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 432 This is..suggestive of the African tribes mentioned by Sir Samuel Baker, who believed in Holloway's Pills because of their rapid and irrepressible results. 1885Trade Marks Jrnl. 18 Nov. 1084 Holloway's Pills... The firm trading as Thomas Holloway,..London; patent medicine vendors... Pills for human use. Ibid., Holloway's Ointment... The firm trading as Thomas Holloway,..London; patent medicine vendors... Ointment. 1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 396/1 Holloway's Pills—box 1/3. 1951Chemist & Druggist Yearbk. 196 Holloway's Pills, Ltd... King George's Avenue, Watford. Ibid. 457 (heading) Proprietary medicines advertised to the public. Ibid. 458/1 Holloway's ointment. Holloway's pills. |